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Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So this is very interesting.

It's taken the government 40 years for the ban on dietary fat to be lifted.

So check this out.

In 2015, the Advisory Committee for the US Dietary Guidelines finally lifted the ban on total dietary fat.

They removed the upper limit of fat.

So you can now consume as much fat as you want.

There's no restriction on consumption of fat.

And there's no longer any association between lowering your dietary fat,

to reduce your cholesterol, to help you lose weight, to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Now, this relatively new shift, well, it's not really new because it's five years ago,

is mind-blowing that it took them 40 years to finally come out and tell people that,

okay, you know, it's okay to consume fat.

Now, you think after five years of having these new guidelines that it would be broadly promoted.

And even in the grocery stores, you'll still see tons of food being low fat.

When, in fact, the US dietary guidelines, which has been our guiding force of what to eat for the last 40 years,

it's actually this change is right in their documents.

It's right on their website, but apparently it's no one's reading it.

In fact, when you look on the back of any label in the grocery store,

it'll say nutrient facts, and it lists the total fats, the fiber, or the carbohydrates, the protein.

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